Recent Reads: A Well-Behaved Woman by Therese Anne Fowler

My review: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

A Well-Behaved Woman is a fictionalised version of the events of Alva Vanderbilt's life, from her humble beginnings, her marriage to William Vanderbilt, to her support of Suffragettes.

It was amazing how many houses I wanted to look at when reading this, as Therese Anne Fowler describes the buildings so well, and I kept wanting to see what they looked like today!  Sadly, the ones in New York don't survive, but still lovely to look at online!

I did also look up characters on Wikipedia, and was interested in how Alva's daughter Consuelo wrote about her mother in her autobiography, The Glitter and the Gold, and yes, I want to read that now!  

All in all, this was a really enjoyable read, and made me interested in American history!

This was written by the same person who wrote Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, which Amazon then made into a series called Z: The Beginning of Everything, starring Christina Ricci, and having read A Well-Behaved Woman, I now want to read Z!

A Well-Behaved Woman was published on 24th January this year, and is available on Amazon, and everywhere else you can find books!

I was given this book for free in return for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and to John Murray Press (the publishers) for this book.

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